Festivalen av nyår!

Festivalen av nyår! (English: New Year's Festival) is an upcoming music festival, to be organised by BTV, in celebration of the beginning of 2018 in Maia. It is expected that international broadcasters will be invited to include artists from a variety of cultures, languages, and genres. The event will be sponsored by Pepsi.

In order to promote national heirtage, competing artists must perform a song in an official language of the country they are representing.

Entry requirements

 * The entry does not need to be New Years-themed.
 * The entry must be between 2-7 minutes in length
 * The entry must not have participated in the Maia Song Contest
 * The entry must be performed in one of the official languages of a country. If the only recognised official language is English, the entry must feature at least 10% lyrics in another language
 * The entry must not contain religious or political lyrics

Rules of the contest

 * The winner shall be decided by a combination of public televoting and the votes of a professional jury from each country; these will be delivered in the form of two sets of 12, 10, and 8-1 points
 * In the event of a tie, the country that received the most points from televoting shall be declared the winner. If a tie persists, the number of countries giving points to an entry is the tiebreaking mechanism, followed by the amount of 12s, 10s, and 8s (etc.) received. In the unlikely event that all of these measures should not sufficiently break the tie, the song that performed earlier will be declared the winner

Final
The final result will be presented on 1 January 2018.

Broadcasters with expressed interest
The following broadcasters have announced interest in participating in the festival;


 * – BTV
 * – GMBN
 * – KYT
 * – KTV
 * – ÜTS
 * – VB
 * – LTRTY
 * – FLBS
 * – ETL
 * - NaWa
 * – PB
 * – QBA
 * - RAR
 * - SPS
 * – NTV
 * – TBC
 * – UPV
 * – TVU
 * - WSBS